[Techtalk] ethernet card problem

[Maria McKinley]

This hasn't happened again, so I'm leaving it alone for the time being, 
but I am curious what you mean by disabling the onboard network card? 
I'm not using it (iow, I don't say anything about it in 
/etc/network/interfaces), but I didn't know I could actually disable it. 
What does that mean?

cheers,
maria

Anne Wainwright wrote:
> Hello, Maria,
> 
> Just a thought that might or might not be applicable here, have you
> disabled any onboard network card?
> 
> Anne
> 
> On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:23:30 -0800
> Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I was having intermittent problems with the onboard NIC of my file 
>> server. People would complain about the network being very slow, and
>> I would see something like this in the logs:
>>
>> Mar  5 11:31:55 billie kernel: [548810.816011] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: 
>> transmit timed out
>> Mar  5 11:31:55 billie kernel: [548810.836475] r8169: eth1: link up
>>
>> So, I installed an Intel PWLA8391GT 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI PRO/1000 GT 
>> Desktop Adapter 1 x RJ45 - OEM, and started using it instead. So, now 
>> occasionally when things get busy, the NIC just fails. I get no
>> messages in the logs at all, and I have to log in to the machine
>> locally, and restart networking, and then it seems to recover fine.
>> The motherboard isn't terribly old, but I'm thinking that is what the
>> problem must be. But, I really don't want to swap out the
>> motherboard, so hoping someone will tell me something different to
>> try. And any ideas why there are no log messages?
>>
>> thanks,
>> maria
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